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Amy McFadden
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By:
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Leah Franqui
About this listen
“Lively and evocative, Mother Land is a deftly crafted exploration of identity and culture, with memorable and deeply human characters who highlight how that which makes us different can ultimately unite us.” (Amy Myerson, author of The Bookshop of Yesterdays and The Imperfects)
From the critically acclaimed author of America for Beginners, a wonderfully insightful, witty, and heart-piercing novel, set in Mumbai, about an impulsive American woman, her headstrong Indian mother-in-law, and the unexpected twists and turns of life that bond them.
When Rachel Meyer, a 30-something foodie from New York, agrees to move to Mumbai with her Indian-born husband, Dhruv, she knows some culture shock is inevitable. Blessed with a curious mind and an independent spirit, Rachel is determined to learn her way around the hot, noisy, seemingly infinite metropolis she now calls home.
But the expat American’s sense of adventure is sorely tested when her mother-in-law, Swati, suddenly arrives from Kolkata - 1,000 miles away - alone, with an even more shocking announcement: She’s left her husband of more than 40 years and moving in with them. Nothing the newlyweds say can budge the steadfast Swati, and as the days pass, it becomes clear she is here to stay - an uneasy situation that becomes more difficult when Dhruv is called away on business.
Suddenly these two strong-willed women from such very different backgrounds, who see life so differently, are alone together in a home that each is determined to run in her own way - a situation that ultimately brings into question the very things in their lives that had seemed perfect and permanent...with results neither of them expect.
Heartfelt, charming, deeply insightful, and wise, Mother Land introduces us to two very different women from very different cultures...who maybe aren’t so different after all.
©2020 Leah Franqui (P)2020 HarperCollins PublishersListeners also enjoyed...
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In misty, coastal Washington State, Isaac lives alone with his dog, grieving the recent death of his teenage son, Daniel. Next door, Lorrie, a working single mother, struggles with a heinous act committed by her own teenage son. Separated by only a silvery stretch of trees, the two parents are emotionally stranded, isolated by their great losses - until an unfamiliar 16-year-old girl shows up, bridges the gap, and changes everything.
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Thin story line, too long.
- By Sandra Crews on 11-04-21
By: JoAnne Tompkins
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My Year Abroad
- A Novel
- By: Chang-rae Lee
- Narrated by: Lawrence Kao
- Length: 16 hrs and 35 mins
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Tiller is an average American college student with a good heart but minimal aspirations. Pong Lou is a larger-than-life, wildly creative Chinese American entrepreneur who sees something intriguing in Tiller beyond his bored exterior and takes him under his wing. When Pong brings him along on a boisterous trip across Asia, Tiller is catapulted from ordinary young man to talented protégé, and pulled into a series of ever more extreme and eye-opening experiences that transform his view of the world, of Pong, and of himself.
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Worst narration ever
- By Unhappy Sirius Camper on 02-07-21
By: Chang-rae Lee
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The Great Mrs. Elias
- A Novel
- By: Barbara Chase Riboud
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
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A murder and a case of mistaken identity brings the police to Hannah Elias’ glitzy, five-story, twenty-room mansion on Central Park West. This is the beginning of an odyssey that moves back and forth in time and reveals the dangerous secrets of a mysterious woman, the fortune she built, and her precipitous fall.
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Inspirational! True telling of those that go unnoticed….until they’re not.
- By raven johnson on 04-15-25
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Talk to Me
- By: John Kenney
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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It's a story that Ted Grayson has reported time and time again in his job as a network TV anchor: the public downfall of those at the top. He just never imagined that it would happen to him. After his profanity-laced tirade is caught on camera, his reputation and career are destroyed, leaving him without a script for the first time in years.
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Complex and Fascinating
- By D on 07-12-23
By: John Kenney
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Night Wherever We Go
- A Novel
- By: Tracey Rose Peyton
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
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On a struggling Texas plantation, six enslaved women slip from their sleeping quarters and gather in the woods under the cover of night. The Lucys—as they call the plantation owners, after Lucifer himself—have decided to turn around the farm’s bleak financial prospects by making the women bear children. They have hired a “stockman” to impregnate them. But the women are determined to protect themselves.
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The historical content of how king Black woman have healed themselves in the mist of a world trying to kill them- amazing read!
- By Amazon Customer on 12-05-23
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Where We Come From
- A novel
- By: Oscar Cásares
- Narrated by: Yareli Arizmendi
- Length: 8 hrs
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From a distance, the towns along the US-Mexican border have dangerous reputations - on one side, drug cartels; on the other, zealous border patrol agents - and Brownsville is no different. But to 12-year-old Orly, it's simply where his godmother Nina lives - and where he is being forced to stay the summer after his mother's sudden death. For Nina, Brownsville is where she grew up, where she lost her first and only love, and where she stayed as her relatives moved away and her neighborhood deteriorated.
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Fantastic Read
- By NSJ on 07-31-19
By: Oscar Cásares
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The Hummingbird
- A Novel
- By: Sandro Veronesi
- Narrated by: Victor Vertunni, Silvia Presente, Kristin Atherton
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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Marco Carrera is “the hummingbird,” a man with an almost supernatural ability to remain still amid the chaos of an ever-changing world. Though his life is rife with emotional challenges—suffering the death of his sister and the absence of his brother; caring for his elderly parents; raising his granddaughter when her mother, Marco's own child, is no longer capable; loving an enigmatic woman—Marco carries on with a noble stoicism that belies an intensity for living.
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A wonderful book!
- By Elizabeth Lawson on 02-07-22
By: Sandro Veronesi
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Booth
- By: Karen Joy Fowler
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
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In 1822, a secret family moves into a secret cabin some thirty miles northeast of Baltimore, to farm, to hide, and to bear ten children over the course of the next sixteen years. Junius Booth—breadwinner, celebrated Shakespearean actor, and master of the house in more ways than one—is at once a mesmerizing talent and a man of terrifying instability. One by one the children arrive, as year by year, the country draws frighteningly closer to the boiling point of secession and civil war.
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Fascinating
- By E. Creagh on 06-20-22
By: Karen Joy Fowler
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When the Moon Is Low
- A Novel
- By: Nadia Hashimi
- Narrated by: Sneha Mathan, Neil Shah
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
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Mahmoud’s passion for his wife, Fereiba, a schoolteacher, is greater than any love she’s ever known. But their happy, middle-class world implodes when their country is engulfed in war and the Taliban rises to power. Mahmoud, a civil engineer, becomes a target of the new fundamentalist regime and is murdered. Forced to flee Kabul with her three children, Fereiba must find a way to cross Europe and reach her sister’s family in England. With forged papers and help from kind strangers they meet along the way, Fereiba make a dangerous crossing into Iran under cover of darkness.
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Unfinished?
- By James R. Hyde on 10-25-21
By: Nadia Hashimi
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The Betrayals
- A Novel
- By: Bridget Collins
- Narrated by: Bridget Collins, Sam Woolf, Sarah Ovens
- Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
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At Montverre, an ancient and elite academy hidden high in the mountains, society's best and brightest are trained for excellence in the grand jeu—the great game—an arcane and mysterious competition that combines music, art, math, poetry, and philosophy. Léo Martin once excelled at Monteverre, but lost his passion for scholarly pursuits after a violent tragedy. He turned to politics instead, and became a rising star in the ruling party, until a small act of conscience cost him his career. Now, he has been exiled back to Monteverre, his fate uncertain.
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It was confusing
- By Hannah Blumenthal on 09-03-22
By: Bridget Collins
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- Marie
- 09-14-20
Great Narrator
I was happy that this book was not a typical love story. It was nice to listen to and made my long drives shorter. I have been looking for books set in India after a trip there and found this to satisfy my missing the bright colors and energy.
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- sandra
- 03-08-24
Nice descriptions of India
Good story but too long and drawn out. It would’ve been better if it were cut in half
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- Zeynep Aynagoz
- 08-08-20
An unlikely friendship
An unlikely women’s friendship. I loved it. I especially loved Swathi. Voice performance is really moving. I definitely recommend.
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- Robin
- 11-03-20
Try this author again
I read this author’s first novel that is available on audible, but felt lukewarm about it. This book, on the other hand, is a solid 4 stars. I have listened to it a few times (between other selections) and like it more each time. Insight into Indian way of life, well imagined and constructed characters. Recommended.
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- ALLISON E REED
- 08-29-20
Lighthearted and Charming
This story is such a welcome break from the stresses of 2020. The narrator was wonderful and the plot twists kept the story fresh. I would love to see this turned into a movie with Swathi as the breakaway star. It is fun to watch her evolve as she stretches past self-imposed boundaries. I will definitely listen to this again and look forward to reading more books by Leah Franqui.
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- Nancy
- 07-30-20
Accurate portrayal of a cross-culture encounter
This is kinda my story, but in a different culture. My mother-in-law was brought into a household with a dictatorial mother-in-law when she married. They both moved into our home, and it's hard to describe what it's like to feel that your last refuge has been invaded by a culture that you're still getting used to, and maybe will never get used to--but Leah Franqui did a great job of framing it. But my mother-in-law was a very open-minded and tolerant person who'd had her own trials being forced to conform for decades, and we spent a lot of time exploring our views and our life stories and ended up friends. The husband character was also a pretty accurate portrayal of how the guy you think you've married can become a different person when back in his own culture.
But this is more about me than about the book, which does a great job of presenting both the wife's and mother-in-law's journeys in a generous and humorous way, plus the Indian experience as a foreign wife, the ex-pat community, and the contradictions and hypocrisies inherent in every culture. Perhaps this isn't the view you want of Indian culture, but really, the book can be abstracted away to what can happen when you become so fully enmeshed in any foreign culture that you can't escape it. And it's an accurate portrayal of two people's encounter with it--and the realizations it brings. To provide more details would be to add spoilers.
I loved Leah Franqui's other book, America for Beginners, and I eagerly look forward to whatever she publishes next.
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- Audible Customer
- 08-29-20
Fresh
Motherland by Leah Franqui set against modern day Mumbai gives that fresh perspective only an intuitive writer can master. Unfortunately this delightful book skirts away from race and class conflicts that often are under currents in most cross cultural marriages. Still a great read.
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- Dimski
- 09-02-23
Surprising
I'm more of a blood, gore, apocalypse girl so was very surprised at just how much I loved this 'gentle' book ❤️
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-01-20
This could have been so good...
The author could have interjected some really great stories about living in India, but didn’t. There is barely any description of their marriage or relationship. Also, the main character can be difficult to like because she seems intelligent yet willfully ignorant of the culture in a country she chose to go live in.
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